Research summary
Reviews the Pati duck of Assam, its rural role and conservation needs.
Objective
Synthesize existing knowledge and identify priorities for the breed.
Methodology / scope
Literature-based review; no new feeding or clinical experiment is described in the accessible abstract.
Main findings
The discussion identifies habitat loss, crossbreeding-related genetic erosion, limited organized breeding and disease management as concerns.
Conclusion
The authors propose habitat protection, community involvement and breeding initiatives. This is production and conservation scholarship, not clinical treatment evidence.
Interpretation & evidence limits
Both M. Rahman entries must be preserved: publisher gives different affiliations and ORCIDs, so these are not a duplicate typo. Keep author initials as the publisher lists them unless full-name evidence is obtained. Full text was not available; summary is based on the publisher abstract. No authorized full-text PDF for public hosting was identified. Do not use the incomplete ResearchGate nine-author list or its provisional page range.
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Sources & identity evidence
- Original publisher / conference source ↗Publisher title, authors, affiliation and bibliographic record
- Original publisher issue contents ↗Volume 80, issue 4, pages 1209–1224
Publisher associates K. Begum with the AAU Department of Poultry Science and ORCID 0009-0000-8409-761X. The public ORCID person record gives the name Kashmiri Begum. This is a strongly matched, publisher-linked profile; user confirmation is still required before claiming official account control.
The source associates the author with Assam Agricultural University’s veterinary/poultry-science community. It does not establish a current university appointment.
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